Secerno products include database activity monitoring, data protection, data auditing and compliance, both for Oracle databases and non-Oracle databases. Their products are expected to be integrated with Oracle’s own security software, including Database Vault and Audit Vault.

“Secerno’s DataWall product blocks against unauthorized database activity in real-time, over the network — before attacks reach the database,” Oracle said in a letter to customers. “Secerno provides a first line of defense against external threats and unauthorized internal access by creating a defensive perimeter around Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase ASE databases.”

One thing I found interesting was in Secerno’s own description of its company, which mentions virtualization and VMware high up, saying that its DataWall product is “available as a range of either hardware or virtual appliances on the VMware platform.” Nowhere in the Oracle literature of its Secerno acquisition does it mention virtualization or VMware, or at least that I could find. I’m not sure if it was intentional or not, but it seems to signal Oracle’s indifference – some might say hostility – toward virtualization, especially on x86 platforms.

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